We utilize a custom rapid application software development methodology
derived from aspects of Agile and Extreme Programming. This methodology
provides a unique focus on establishing your success criteria early
in the project timeline. This
criteria is used directly to build functional tests to ensure that
all development meets your expectations throughout the project while
functionality is incrementally delivered. This reduces re-work and
misaligned goals common in other methodologies. And project progress
is quantitative and reported in an automated fashion against pre-agreed
benchmarks throughout project development. Customer acceptance is
assured throughout development and end-of-project surprises are eliminated.

We are committed to the use of XML and industry standard schemas
to provide for business document exchange. This ensures that interfaces
with your business partners are transparent, flexible, and compatible
with other potential partners providing like services. This allows
you to maintain relationships with partners that add value to your
business and revise relationships that don't; without risking your
supply chain and having to endure excess technical costs to alter
those relationships.

We prefer to use open source software, when available and acceptable
to our clients, to accelerate project development and increase the
quality of the final deliverable. We are mindful of the added development
and on-going maintenance costs of proprietary software
in your enterprise. So we focus your project expenses on building
your business expertise into our deliverables and rely on cost
effective open source solutions for the infrastructure components
common to other projects and industries.

We encourage the use of Business Rule Management Systems to centralize
and verbalize the rules of your business processes. Using this facility
removes the 'magic' for your non-developer subject
matter experts and allows them to visualize the implementation
used to automate your processes. A BRMS allows your business rules
to be rapidly changed to met the most demanding challenges without
having to re-work huge portions code, which would otherwise be costly
and time consuming to alter and test. Business rule implementations
are self-documenting and alignment with the desired process assured.

We recommend Service Oriented Architectures to provide the highest
level of functional reuse in your custom development. The use of
service architectures allows you to utilize custom business functionality
through a variety of platforms, processes, and clients; including
emerging wireless and portable platforms. This allows you to choose
infrastructure components that are most cost effective and meets your
business goals rather than allowing your systems architecture or
proprietary application components to dictate your infrastructure.

Our corporate strategy is not to load up your organization with
our consultants. Nor do we rely on indefinite interdependence. We
define our success by completing your project as quickly and as efficiently
as possible, and by providing deliverables in a self-sustainable
way when our client has successfully reached their goals. Our business
succeeds by repeating this methodology on project after project,
for client after client.